The South Korean military fired “tens” of 155mm artillery rounds after it said North Korea fired a projectile at a South Korean propaganda loudspeaker.
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There are no other immediate details, including reports of what happened in the South Korean town.
The North is believed to have been aiming at a loudspeaker that has been blaring anti-Pyongyang broadcasts recently, South Korean media said. South Korea had not fired back, Yonhap reported.
Kelly said the message she is sending through personal diplomacy and increased economic ties is that an eventual unified Korea under Seoul’s leadership will be a stabilizing and peaceful regional presence.
In this Monday, August 17, 2015 photo, Kim Sung-jin, 14, broadcasts himself eating delivery Chinese food in his room at home in Bucheon, south of Seoul, South Korea.
Tensions have spiked on the Korean Peninsula in recent weeks after two South Korean soldiers were seriously wounded by landmines in the demilitarized zone.
Pyongyang’s powerful National Defense Commission had claimed that Seoul fabricated the evidence on the land mines and demanded video proof.
The Yonyap news agency in South Korea said there was no apparent damage.
State-run KBS News quoted a South Korean military official as saying that the North Korean military opened fire at 3.52pm local time on Thursday. Later in October, border guards from the two Koreas again exchanged gunfire along the border, without any casualties.
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U.S. and South Korean troops this week began large-scale annual drills that also typically draw anger from the North. It’s a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
